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Show AROUND THE MINES Texas hist year iiroduoed 5211.000 ounces of silver and small quantities of gold, lead and copper. i';.oming and Montana oil fields sliuid a slight increase in. production produc-tion fur t lie week ending lieeeniber 4, according to the estimates of the American Petroleum institute. Gold production in South Dakota in ltrJO was $4,330,000 compared with f 4,8lj2.fiS(i the previous year and silver sil-ver production there amounted to GS,-O.'io GS,-O.'io ounces against 11.1, 522 ounces in l'Jl'J. The production of gold from mines in South Dakota in 1020 was $4,330,-000, $4,330,-000, compared with $4.S62,5S0 in 1919 and with 6.505,337 in 1"1S ; that of silver sil-ver was 0S.035 ounces, compared with 115,522 ounces in 1919. Stuping of ore was started last week by lessees on the 940 level of the Eureka Mines property, Tintic district. Tiie ore is said to be a continuation con-tinuation of a rich body mined in the Gemini, an adjoining property. Consolidated Coppermines company at Kimherly suspended further operations oper-ations and the force was cut to a care-taking care-taking basis, says an Ely, Nev., dispatch. dis-patch. This will affect approximately sixty men who have been recently employed em-ployed at Pilot Knob. Another evidence of the expanding activities of the Anaconda Copper Mining company is the beginning of experiments at its Great Falls, Mont., works for the manufacture of brass, a twenty-five-ton furnace having been installed for this purpose. The Black Panther Oil company of Philadelphia has secured a lease on some 2(NX acres of land on the Forest Grove structure and is completing arrangements ar-rangements for immediately building a substantial camp there and starting to drill, says a Lewiston, Mont., correspondent. corre-spondent. The payroll of the Nevada Consolidated Consoli-dated Copper company for the last month of the year 1920 reached a total to-tal of approximately $205,000. Of this sum S95.000 was paid out at the mines and ?170,i!0l at the smelter. This is about 20 per cent below the average payroll of six months ago. The Invincible Oil company is preparing pre-paring to enter the Fergus county field, in Montana, and has just closed up a deal with the Boston & Montana company and the Montana Holding company under which it secures over 4.000 acres in the Black Butte structure, struct-ure, northwest of the Cat Creek field. The output of California mines for 1920 and the comparison with 191!) follow: Gold. $13,933,600, a decrease of $2,762.355 ; silver, 1,578.(300 fine ounces, an increase of 431,471; copper, 12.934,900 pounds a decrease of 8.797.-307 8.797.-307 ; lead. 5,071.600 pounds, an increase of l.M)3.330, and zinc, 1,572,500 pounds, an increase of 1,099,029. Foster Bain of California was nominated nomi-nated January 4 b.c President Wilson to succeed Dr. F. 3. Cottrell, director !f the United States bureau of mines, who recently resigned. Dr. Cottrell leaves the bureau to take up his duties as chairman of the division of chemistry chem-istry and chemical technology of the national research council. A committee representing the lead producers of the state met at the of-lice of-lice in Salt Lake of the secretary of the Utah chapter of the American Mining congress, and formulated a dan for presenting their case to the tioiise ways and means committee on January 12, when the hearing on a protective tariff for lead is begun. Neiv Mexico mines produced last year $176,000 in gold, 762.000 ounces :f sdver. 2,000,000 pounds of lead. Vl.000.000 pounds of copper, and 11,-340.000 11,-340.000 pounds of zinc. These figures represent as compared with 1919 a decrease de-crease of $175,000 for gold, 00.000 Dunces of silver and 340.000 pounds of lead, but an increase of three million pounds of copper and 3.S40.000 pounds :f zinc. Necessity for conservation of coal resources and development of substitute substi-tute fuels makes the increasing use of pulverized coal one of much economic importance it is pointed out by the National Na-tional Bank of Commerce of New York in the January number of its magazine. Commerce Monthly. Experimentation, the hank says, shows that, by the use of pulverized coal a saving of 20 per ?ent in heating efficiency and from 20 to 30 per cent in consumption is possible. pos-sible. In.plicit faith in an instrument that saved the lives of thousands of American Ameri-can soldiers in France is daily en-, en-, laagering the lives of scores of men in industrial life in the United States, Dr. F. G. Cottrell, director of the bureau bu-reau of mines, said in another warning warn-ing against the use of army gas masks in mine explosions and mine fires. Despite De-spite repeated warning from the department, de-partment, miners and persons en- ! j .raged in mine-rescue work persist in using army gas masks. Dr. Cottrell ' said, although the devices are of prac-'ically prac-'ically no use in the average mine d s-ister. s-ister. The production of metals in Colorado in 1920 was $7,050,000 in gold. 5.400.- i 100 ounces in silver. 44.000. (X1 pounds j of lea.!. 3.000. 000 pounds of zinc, as : compared with $9.Si '.7.927 in gold. .".-R39.516 .".-R39.516 ounces of silver. 35.S59.090 pounds of lead. 3.310.675 pounds of copper, and 51.4 15.429 pounds of zinc j in 1919. j The main shaft of the Holly mine. Tintic district, lias now reached a depth of GOO feet, and a station is being be-ing cut out at that level. As soon as this station is completed the work of sinking the shaft will be continued. |